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A government-backed AI health startup is leaving Australia for the United States, making local redundancies in the process.
We’d rather keep the AI innovation (and jobs!) in Australia, especially when women’s health is involved!
The Albanese Government has unveiled an algorithm opt-out plan to help solve the social media crisis. What could such a plan mean for women and girls? Madeline Hislop explores.
Also today, Samantha Rebell shares this courageous piece about deciding to “evict” her uterus at the age of 36, having had it wreck her mental health for two decades. She explains why, in line with a recent study of 9000 Australian women that found almost half of those living with endometriosis report depression.
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This commitment sends a clear message to Big Tech: you cannot introduce harmful features into our lives without asking for our consent first. |
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Teach Us Consent
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The organisation founded by Chanel Contos has celebrated the government’s decision to give users a choice over social media algorithms.
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Unpaid household labour (mostly done by women) is worth $1 trillion. So why don’t we count it?
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Australians spend 26 hours on unpaid household labour each week, an effort that would be worth $1 trillion.
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‘Not just safe from you. Safer because of you’: The message boys need to hear from their headmaster |
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“I want every young woman who encounters a Joe Boy to be safer because you are there — not merely safe from you, safer because of you.” Read more +
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The Aussie mum who became a living donor to give her daughter a second chance at life |
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Mira, now aged 13, was born with a rare kidney disease. Her mum Katrina shares what it was like to become a living donor. Read more +
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One Nation’s plan to make Australian women poorer in retirement
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One Nation’s latest plan to make women poorer comes in the form of a new policy proposal that would enable millions of Australians to access superannuation early. Read more +
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Medical gaslighting: Women should not have to fight to be believed
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Ovarian cancer research must improve, giving women better diagnostic tools, earlier answers and the care they deserve. Read more +
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The age of Blanche d'Alpuget, who has died, according to a statement from her family today. D'Alpuget was an acclaimed writer and novelist, and the widow of former prime minister Bob Hawke.
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81-year-old Janice Fitzpatrick to ‘Ride Out Dementia’ in memory of husband
Illawarra cyclist Janice Fitzpatrick will ride 40km around Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin, turning a passion she shared with her late husband Bernie into a mission to help change the future of dementia. She has a goal of raising $15,000 for dementia research at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing at UNSW Sydney.
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Women's Agenda speaks with George Megalogenis about his new book Three Shocks: Who We Are Becoming in the 21st Century. The book traces how politics has failed to keep up with a changing Australia, including via one key shock -- that professional women are now the largest segment of the workforce, replacing blue-collar men.
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